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Beat the Streak Report: Wednesday, June 30

Leader Kyle Barr upped his streak to a stellar 41-game clip last
night thanks to Miguel Cabrera, who extended the lives of 14.9 percent
of the BTS universe with a 2-for-3 evening vs. the Twins.

Barr is now 71.9 percent on the way to the big bucks and you
can already smell the white truffles, golden caviar and rich sea urchin
bustling along in his kitchen. Will our fearsome leader start counting
his cash and dare slap some insanely expensive saffron-season lobster
on his menu tonight?

We shall find out soon enough.

Regardless, it’s clear that our cook is on a mission and there is no stopping him*

* = Assuming he doesn’t pick Ichiro

Time for Wednesday’s picks

Dave’s Updated Note: Barr selected Denard Span. Span went 0-for-2. Well, that was fun. How Barr puts his $3,000,000 on Span, who has never faced opposing lefty Andy Oliver — who throws in the low-to-mid 90s by the by — is beyond me. Full post tomorrow.

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Going with Corey Hart to start a new streak. It could be Kevin Kouz trap though where the very day everything lines up, he goes 0fer after inexplicably puttin together a pretty long streak.

Many of the picks are somewhat iffy today. Thought about Span but he has such a huge day yesterday so I was wary. Kemp looked good except for Sanchez pitching. I couldn’t tell whether Kemp is ready to bust out again after a long slump. M. Cab. looks good but you don’t know when he will have a off day because he always look good. Suzuki going against awfully tough Vaz this month. Mauer out of line-up.

kbarr overlooked a couple of things. Span went 4f4 with 3 triples last night. He had to leg those out. He is gotta be kindd tired. Span hit 5 days in a row. Plus, Span’s home game prowess is not as stong during the day. His lucky charm seemed to have ran dry too. That sac bunt & walk totally sapped his chances. But he has gotten so lucky in the past. He got away with Mauer & Morneau off days. Dick must be pretty happy now. His 10k seems to be safe for the moment.

well good bye streak leader. Span is 0 for 2 as of now going into the 8th and he just batted and Minnesota is winning by 4 at home so the Twins would have to hit around the order just for him to get another chance but I dont see that happening. The leader is now going to be from the 29 streakers assuming at least one of their picks get a hit

I actually changed my pick like two or three times earlier today before finally sticking with my pick of Werth. It ended up being worth it with him getting me a hit in his second at-bat. I’m back at my typical 7-gamer at the moment. Definitely hoping I can finally beat my own streak tomorrow and get to 8.

Why would you tease kbarr like that? I don’t want to be eating @ his restaurant tonight for sure. What sucks for him is at Dickie get 10K but he gets like $50 GC to buy an overpriced jersey or a cap from mlb store. They should at least hand him a $1000 for getting to 40+.

If there is any team capable of scoring 5 runs in one inning, it has to be the Tigers. I think even more so than the Yankees. Unfortunately, their moneymakers are due up. Those are guys you need when you have man on base already.

This games seems to be lot more about chances than we’re lead to believe. There are so many dead streakers at 40 to 43 over the years. Sure, we control whom to pick but maybe they will only grant so many lucks your way. I thought Span was a good pick but not a great pick today. I certainly would not have picked him but I understand kbarr’s logic behind it. Maybe he doesn’t realize the curse of big day after. I played this strategy during my first year. Look for guys having a big day for the next day. It was worst than 50/50. Most of those guys are too tired, pitchers are extra careful and probably the hitters are cocky for big swings. That would have been the main reason why I would have stayed away from Span today.

@btsplayer: Hmm, why not charge anyone that plays this game, say $20 entry fee. Assuming a cool million+ join (countrywide/worldwide?), the entry fees (less some admin fees) are scaled for say the top 50 or 100, with 1st place the only one guaranteed to be millionaire? I’d pay the $20!

Check out this guy. Second trip up the front page. Braun got a hit today so he is up 26 now. 26+27= 53. I wonder how many days og gap between 2 streaks. Just imagine though that it is one and he got a hit that day. He would be at 54 now.

Good idea lavolpe but the problem will be in the legalese. BTS would become a gambling game rather than a sponsored contest. Plus it’s done over the internet which opens up another abyss of issues. For the record, though, I’d pay the 20 bucks as well. :)

“@champ88. Good pick champ. We are on the same page…..lol. We are right with Wright…..lol.”

lol, thanks!

Sorry for not posting this morning, but I was really rushed and by the time, I figured out I had forgot to post, I had already shut the computer off.

I really did not want to use him for the third day in a row, but I feel like Wright is right at the core of his hot streak right now, whereas the only other two pieces I toyed with, Rickie Weeks, and Josh Hamilton, seem to be at the tail-end of their hot streaks.

There are millions (per Blog Guy) of players; granted most are casual. However, even if 200K player nationwide paid entry fee, that’s still $4million less admin fees. Higher payouts for #2-#100 could be enough to entice even more players: $20 may get you $1000 for 100th place, let’s say. No way to know unless MLB tries it

a good game to hopefully advance in all 3 games is the Phillies/Pitt game…..the Pirates pitcher is 0-3 with an ERA of 11.00 and has given up 26 hits in 18 innings….the Phils should handle him pretty easily and probably crack a HR or two as well

Cano is batting well beloww .200 against lefty in June while batting over .400 against righty. His #s are also weaker during the day. But Rowland-S is a lefty who is very weak against lefty. So toss a coin. Jeter is only hitting lefty this year but Rowland-S is not as bad against a righty.

So toss a coin. Have Jeter for now but it won’t matter as my streak is only @1.

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